New Planet-Hunting Telescope To Join Search For Alien Earths In 2024

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How could life arise in young solar systems? We're still not sure of the answer on Earth, even for something…

Dense Gas Clouds Blot The View Of Supermassive Black Holes

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Gas around supermassive black holes tends to clump into immense clouds, periodically blocking the view of these huge X-ray sources…

Opportunity rover Spied atop Martian Mountain Ridge from Orbit – Views from Above and Below

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Opportunity Rover on 'Murray Ridge' Seen From Orbit on Valentine's Day 2014 The telescopic High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)…

Stars Boil Before They Blow Up, Says NuSTAR

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Supernovas are some of the most energetic and powerful events in the observable Universe. Briefly outshining entire galaxies, they are…

Kepler’s Universe: More Planets in Our Galaxy Than Stars

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Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and thanks to the Kepler mission, we can…

Why Europa?

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Forget Mars, the place we really want to go looking for life is Jupiter's moon Europa. Dr. Mike Brown, a…

Book Review and Giveaway: Women in Space by Karen Bush Gibson

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On July 23rd, 2012, Sally Ride died. As the first American woman in space and a true icon of the…

Is Eta Carinae Heading Toward Another Eruption?

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Massive stars can devastate their surroundings, unleashing hot winds and blasting radiation. With a mass over 100 times heavier than…

Dazzling New Views of a Familiar Cluster

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Wow. It’s always amazing to get new views of familiar sky targets. And you always know that a “feast for…